[event] DORKBOT EINDHOVEN, Netherlands 6 April,
20:00, Gaslab TU/e
PREPARE FOR TAKE OFF!
DORKBOT EINDHOVEN(Netherlands) is launching Wednesday
April 6th,
20:00, at the Gaslab TU/eindhoven.
http://dorkbot.org/dorkboteindhoven /
dorkboteindhovenATdorkbot.org
our mailing list:
http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkboteindhoven-announce
Around the globe there is a movement of small,
autonomous functioning
organizations with a similar goal: offering artists/
programmers/
engineers/ geeks an opportunity for informal peer
review; establish a
forum for the presentation of new art works/
technology/ software/
hardware; help establish relationships and foster
collaboration
between people with various backgrounds and interests.
This movement
is called Dorkbot and on April 6th it starts in
Eindhoven.
PRESENTATIONS/PERFORMANCES (in dutch)
***Koert Mensvoort /
http://www.koert.com
Koert Mensvoort is a Dutch multimedia artist and
scientist currently
assistant professor in the Industrial Design
Department of the TU/e
and a teacher at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.
His main
interest is investigating the strange and the
beautiful. He will be
presenting Amateurs (a short film), Active Cursor
(interactive
presentation), Drift (internet dancefilm with motion
capture
technique), Bos ruikt naar Shampoo (documentary
fragment) &
Datafountain (short film).
***NMN/dorkbot gent /
http://www.nmn.be
NMN is a not-for-profit organization that has been
running Dorkbot
Ghent in the last years and has been producing a
variety digital art
projects involving sound and/or interactivity for the
past 5 years.
NMN will be talking about Dorkbot Ghent over the years
as well as
presenting some of their projects involving both code
and art.
***Danielle Roberts /
http://www.numuseum.nl
Danielle Roberts is a new media artist living and
working in Breda,
Netherlands. Originally trained as a sculptor/monument
designer she
has been active in new media since 1998. She most
often is creating
works using photography/scans, video, and text
combined with
programming. She will be presenting numuseum, an
ongoing project since
1998, which houses Danielle's new media works and has
become one
itself. It fuses 3 equal components: the computer, the
visitor and the
artist, which all interact to become part of the
whole.
***Berto Aussems /
http://www.bertoaussems.nl
Digital Art Group Maastricht /
http://www.digitalartgroup.nl
Berto Aussems is a self-taught new media artist,
working in the field
since 1981. He has has built numerous installations
and new media
works that deal with electronic music and generative
animations. He
was also founding member of the Electronic Art
Collective Limburg
(early '90s) and the Digital Art Group Maastricht
(1999). He will be
showing some pieces from the overview DVD produced by
the Digital Art
Group Maastricht (including the pieces Morface by
Andre Dezelak, Cubic
Transformations by Jos Mulders and Peristaltique by
Berto Aussems).
The screening will be accompanied by an overview of
the way digital
art and the group have developed in South-Limburg in
the past 23 years
and a presentation of Berto's own work.
*Dorkbot Eindhoven is an initiative of Art &
Technology Festival STRP
in collaboration with Studium Generale (TU/e).
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DORKBOTeindhoven #1: Koert Mensvoort, NMN, Danielle
Roberts & Berto
Aussems/DAG
WEDNESDAY, 6 APRIL @ 20:00 (doors open)/20:30
(presentations begin)
GASLAB, TU/eindhoven, Netherlands (for map:
http://www.tue.nl/tue-algemeen/index_route.htm or
email
dorkboteindhovenATdorkbot.org for directions)
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lists and to
anyone else you think might be interested!
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